Kemp, Ora Francis

Ora Kemp, born in Missouri in 1882, farmed just NE of Shepherd starting about 1910. Board member of the Billings Bench Water Association and Midland Empire State Fair. Farmed on the Billings Bench. A Democrat who ran for State representative, he was married with four children in 1930 - See Farmer Files for Assembly, Billings Gazette, June 12, 1930. Married Mary Conley Carroll on Oct. 19. 1946, after his first wife, Julia Conley, died in 1945. Died in 1962 - See Ora F. Kemp, Former Fair Board Succumbs, Billings Gazette, September 16, 1962.

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